"The Rosenstrasse protest . . . shows that a great
number, probably a great majority . . . of the Aryan partners in mixed marriages
did not forsake their Jewish spouses, despite often overwhelming pressures to do
so. . . . What happened in this small and ordinary Berlin street was an
extraordinary manifestation of courage at a time when such courage was often
sadly absent."--from the foreword by Walter Laqueur

"Goldhagen's Hitler's Willing Executioners created
a furor with his sweeping and sensational claim that 'ordinary Germans' in
Hitler's Reich were anti-Semites who had been longing for decades for the chance
to kill the Jews. This timely new book by another young American historian
presents another side to the picture. Stoltzfus is a careful and subtle
historian and the result of his labors is no less sensational and
thought-provoking."--Richard J. Evans, The Sunday Telegraph

Stoltzfus (...) shows, very convincingly, how
extraordinarily sensitive the Nazi leadership, especially Joseph Goebbels and
Hitler, was when it came to popular opinion. This is new and noteworthy. (...)
These utterly brutal men could be swayed by the power of public protest--public
protest, however, which was not forthcoming as far as the deportation of Jews
was concerned. (...) In its exceptional quality this is a most telling
story about the Third Reich."--Michael Geyer,
Journal of Church and State